List of tables. Preface. Acknowledgements. Some Useful Definitions. Glossary. List of Abbreviations. 1. Situating Human Rights of the Third Gender within State and Society An Introduction 2. Intellectual Trajectories of Human Rights 3. The Postmodernist Critique of Traditional Human Rights Theory 4. Postcolonial Approach to Human Rights Situating Gender in South Asia 5. Constitutionalisation and Realisation of Human Rights of the Third Gender in Post-Independent India 6. Civil Society and Human Rights Activism 7. Representation of the Third Gender in Indian Cinema and Literature 8. Globalisation and the New Age of Rights 9. Interrogating the Major Paradigms of Human Rights; Analysing the Dynamics of Change and Tracing Future Possibilities. Bibliography. Index.